Community pillar of the Bundu Ecosystem
A friend that serves; a friend that does not control.
Shamwari — Shona for friend — is an AI companion built in Zimbabwe. It answers in Shona, Ndebele and English, cites the actual provision of the actual statute instead of guessing, and is built so that anything it knows about you specifically can never leave your own device.
Shamwari cites the Statutory Instrument. ChatGPT guesses.
Zimbabwean law, tax thresholds and monetary policy change most months. A model with that baked into its weights is stale the day it ships — and it will answer confidently anyway. Shamwari retrieves the current text before it answers and shows you where it came from.
What it is
One companion, three places it can run
Which one answers a question depends on whose question it is — not on which plan you're paying for.
Cloud
Routed third-party models. Fast, general knowledge, no persistent memory of you.
Ground
The Zimbabwean corpus — law, tax, regulation — kept fresh and cited by section.
Mind
A small, open-weight model on your own device — the only part that ever sees anything personal.
Where we are
Built in the open, honestly labelled
We'd rather this page be a little less impressive and stay true than round anything up.
- Live The architecture, documented and enforced in code.
- Building The Zimbabwean legal and tax corpus — starting with the Constitution of Zimbabwe.
- Planned Shamwari Mind, the on-device model.
Get in touch
Talk to us before you talk to a consultant
We're bringing on the first customers by hand — mostly around Zimbabwean tax and regulatory compliance, where being wrong costs real money and the answer changes monthly.